Zodiac Academy: The Awakening

Darcy and Tory attend the school dance with Sofia and Diego despite Seth’s interest in escorting Darcy. Darcy jokes that Sofia should abstain from drinking if she wants to stick around. Sofia insists that she can handle her alcohol and thinks something was wrong with the drinks. Diego brushes by, insisting that they stop teasing Sofia and enjoy the night.

At the dance, Darcy receives a message from Falling Star asking to meet in Venus Library. They tell Sofia and Diego this before leaving. Falling Star is Professor Astrum, a close friend of their birth mother. He pulls out his tarot deck—a gift from their mother, Merissa, that magically appeared on his desk shortly after her death. He insists that the cards have given him clues about their murders. He believes that a conspirator is pulling Nymph strings. Nymphs who steal Fae powers rarely master them enough to attack with skill, as they had against the King and Queen. Thus, he believes that the Nymphs were trained by Fae. He suspects Lord Acrux and, by extension, Darius, as well as Orion—whose own family has deep roots in dark magic.

When they overhear a sound in the library, Professor Astrum believes that someone is eavesdropping and ends the meeting.